Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:51 amPosts: 5877Location: United States of New England

similar to your polenta idea there is a "polenta hearts" recipe in the Vegan Table.basically you make the polenta, put it in the fridge for awhile, then use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out hearts then pan fry those.there is a roasted red pepper coulis recipe that goes with it that's really good.

the hearts is kinda cheesy but kinda cute if you're into that. the time i made it i didnt have a heart cookie cutter so i used my animal shaped ones. buffalo and squirrel polenta!

Polenta hearts sounds fantastic! My kiddo was planning out a Valentine's dinner today where everything had red food dye...I was trying to shift her back to something more reasonable and palatable so this should be a great start.

I think I'm going with meatball subs. My husband really loves them, and I was trying to think of one of his favorite foo to make... When I thought of meatball subs! I dont know yet what I'll do for the side dishes. Maybe beets? Or an all-red salad?

We were at Target the other night and in the v-day section there was some 'manly' shaped chocolate themes and cases of beer...The boyfriend was like "ohhh vday for guys!"...I am getting him a case of beer and I am going to try to find a small heart shaped pie tin (4 inches or so) and make him a pb cup to bring out after dinner...

We are boring so we don't do anything. I've been cooking a lot lately though so maybe, if my hubby is good, I'll make him some pasta. He loves pasta and I don't care for it so he gets excited when I make it.

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Heart-shaped cake without a special pan: two layer cake with one in an 8x8 square and one in an 8-inch circle. Cut the circle in half, orient the square so it's a diamond, and stick the semi circles so that each cut edge is on the top right or left side of your diamond. A heart! Does that make any sense?! My mom and dad are the exact same age and their birthday is February 10th. In middle school I started baking them heart-shaped cakes decorated with white icing and red hots. I thought it was genius!

The manfriend and I just decided to stay in and cook rather than go out - which I'm pretty happy about since I have limited funds - but I don't know what to make yet. I often make him noodles and veggies with spicy peanut sauce and he loves it, but I want to break away from the usual. He's omni (although pretty open-minded with veg stuff) so I'm thinking about a lasagne or something else pasta-y. Hrrmmmm.

No joke, I'm seriously contemplating ordering pizza. I might make salad to go with it. We're going out for fancy-ish dinner on the 21st (and we were considering going to Glasgow, but we might not because I'm going the weekend after for the chip crawl), and I always make dinner, so it wouldn't really be that special if I cooked (and I really can't be arsed coming up with something schmancy on a Thursday).

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